Agency Spend and Social Work Organisational Structure

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Dear Aberdeen City Council,

1. Please can you provide the recruitment agency spend on Social Workers from April 2019 – March 2020.

2. Please can you provide the name, contact and address details for each social work service team and department in broken down by:
a) Adult Services
b) Children and Families Services
c) Criminal Justice

3. Please can you provide the social work managers names, phone numbers and email addresses for the individual teams from question 2.

4. Please can you provide an organisational structure for the management hierarchy.

Yours faithfully,

Leah Rowley

Foi Enquiries, Aberdeen City Council

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Dear Ms Rowley,

 

Information enquiry reference FOI-20-0498.

 

Thank you for your recent request for information, which we received on 21
May 2020. 

 

The scheduled date for our response to your request for information is on
or before 19 June 2020.

 

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Dear Ms Rowley,

 

Thank you for your information request of 21 May 2020.  Aberdeen City
Council (ACC) has completed the necessary search for the information
requested. Our response is now detailed below.

 

1.       Please can you provide the recruitment agency spend on Social
Workers from April 2019 – March 2020.

During the period 29/4/2019 – 31st March 2020 - £69,397.57 has been spent
on agency fees for Social Workers In Adult Social Work. This figure
equates to salary and expenses.

 

We are unable to provide the recruitment agency spend on Children’s Social
Workers as the cost of providing it has been calculated as being in excess
of the statutory maximum (£600).  The amount spent on agency Children’s
Social Workers is not separated from the overall agency social work spend.
In order to extract this information, we would have to check the invoice
for each item of expenditure to find out if it stated whether it was for a
Children’s Social Worker or not. There are a total of 791 transactions
which will take 5 minutes per transaction to find the information.

 

This has been calculated a 5minutes  X 791transactions = 65.9Hours, at the
cost of £989 (65.9 X £15 per hour) in total.

 

In order to comply with our obligations under the terms of Section 16 of
the FOISA, we hereby give notice that we are refusing your request under
the terms of Section 12 - Excessive Cost of Compliance - of the FOISA.

 

2.       Please can you provide the name, contact and address details for
each social work service team and department in broken down by:

 a. Adult Services
 b. Children and Families Services
 c. Criminal Justice

Adult Social Work

·         Chief Officer (Aberdeen Health and Social Care Partnership):
Sandra MacLeod, Corporate Hub, Marischal College, Broad Street, AB10 1AB–
01224 523107

 

·         Social Work Lead: Claire Duncan, Adult Social Care and Criminal
Justice Services, Business Hub 11, 2nd Floor West, Marischal College,
Broad Street, AB10 1AB – 01224 523107

 

·         Head of Learning Disabilities Services, Aberdeen City Health &
Social care Partnership: Kevin Dawson, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
AB25 2ZH – 01224 557163

 

·         Service Manager, Mental Health and Substance Misuse: Louise
Officer, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Cornhill Road, AB10 1AB – 01224 557327

 

·         Service Manager, Learning Disabilities: Katharine Paton,
Business Hub 8, 1st Floor North, Marischal College, Broad Street, AB10 1AB
– 01224 523466

 

·         Service Manager, Hospital Care Management: Kenneth O’Brien,
Woodend Hospital, Management Office – General Block, AB156XS – 01224
556201

 

·         Service Manager, Adult Protection and Duty Social Work: Carol
Simmers, Business Hub 8, 1st Floor North, Marischal College, Broad Street,
AB10 1AB – 01224 524143

 

·         Service Manager, Older Peoples & Physical Disabilities: Emma
Ross, Business Hub 8, 1st Floor North, Marischal College, Broad Street,
AB10 1AB – 01224 524074

 

·         Service Manager, Older Peoples & Physical Disabilities: Tracey
McMillan, Business Hub 8, 1st Floor North, Marischal College, Broad
Street, AB10 1AB – 01224 524074

 

·         Service Manager, Criminal Justice: Lesley Simpson, 2nd Floor,
74‐76 Spring Garden, AB25 1GN – 01224 538017

 

Children Social Work

Please find attached the children social work structure and managers
names, job titles and contact details.

o FOI-20-0498 – CSW Managers
o FOI-20-0498 – High Level Structure Sep2019

 

3.       Please can you provide the social work managers names, phone
numbers and email addresses for the individual teams from question 2.

Please see the response to question 2.

 

4.       Please can you provide an organisational structure for the
management hierarchy.

Please see attached: ACC New Structure.

 

 

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of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Please refer to
[1]FOISA reviews & appeals and [2]Your Data for more information about
your rights under FOISA.

 

We hope this helps with your request.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

[3]ACC_Crest_for mac Tomina Egbuson | Access to Information Officer
email
Aberdeen City Council | Access to Information Team |
Customer Feedback |Customer

Marischal College | Business Hub 6 | 1^st Floor  |
Broad Street | Aberdeen | AB10 1AB

 

Dial: 01224 522166   Email:
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